Wrap up this year and plan the next. Companion essays and self-guided tools for making your own change.
For me, the Completing & Creating cycle is aligned with the winter season, woven among the family time, holiday rituals, and colder weather. Reflecting back, the questions evoke gratitude, affirm limits, and tend to relationships. Looking forward, the opportunity is to carry on from the sacred center of somewhere in a somewhat sensible way.
Ten questions on each slide provide a simple, accessible framework for your own quiet reflection. The companion essays help along the way. All free for you to use and share today!
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Essays & Tools for Completing this Cycle & Creating the Path Ahead
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Completing this Cycle and Creating the Path Ahead
The Completing & Creating cycle enhances management practices, blending self-inquiry with communal support. Emphasizing gratitude and personal growth, the the process encourages balanced views and creative exploration, fostering an open space for insights while moving through cycles in life.
Dynamic Duos
Carefully listening to others enhances one’s own understanding. Engaging in discussion fosters contemplation and deepens personal reflection. Answering the Creating and Completing prompts in pairs can be insightful, too.
Suppose it’s a Social Studio
Emphasizing hands-on work and focused engagement, the social studio encourages collaboration, exploration, and personal inquiry in a welcoming, cozy atmosphere.
Wordless Wandering
A social studio inspires deeper insights about solitude and shared experiences. Personal storytelling often comes from a quiet, still place.
Old Tools
Familiar phrases, song lyrics, and shared experiences with family shape our sensibilities, serving as vintage tools and classic tunes in life’s journey.
Geographic Pragmagics
Every day is a blend of memory and magic that fosters a deeper appreciation for past and present relationships, and acts of love and remembrance.
Pacing Around Problems
Daily walks, hikes, and dance help us find the ‘pace of trust’ and to process creative tensions, especially when a pause is needed.
Peripatetic Pasts
A morning missive is a walk to the park and back in time. Why do we travel ‘somewhere’ to get creative? To get to places beyond the mind.
Other People’s Parties
What is interruption? Listening to different stories is a helpful break from one’s own worldview.
Divine Diversions
Embracing detours as opportunities for growth that lead to unexpected, yet meaningful paths.
Persistence and Payoff
The social studio evolved from initial experimentation to routine writing practice, and rippled out from there. It turned into a regular creative practice aimed at connection.
